Rishita Chaudhary
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multi-hyphenate
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Rishita Chaudhary
Purva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. There’s a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)
cumulative process (fu rand)
‘Intellectual Tradition is a
... See more“The views of the preceding sages have not been polluted, but only refined”
Critique doesn't render previous inquiry useless. Those previous views allow us to ascend the ladder and further the inquiry. It’s not something to be discarded.
Perhaps the most hopeful thing about being alive is that we are never finished and complete. Perhaps the most exasperating is that we are never entirely new, that we are nested with every self we have ever been, each stage of our development shaped by the singular needs and tensions of each preceding stage, our character shaped by how those needs... See more
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable About Cherishing the Particular
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
